HAMIDASYSTEM

More Like HAMIDONESYSTEM Amirite?

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Oh, you thought we were done with alt-idol tragedies for today? Nope, two for one, everyone! HAMIDASYSTEM are done too!

Disbanding just over a week before Younapi jumps too, double ouch.

There is a silver lining behind this in that Me and She aren’t going away entirely; they’ll still be part of the agency and will be forming a successor group with sayshine, their sound producer, much like how the original HAMIDASYSTEM later formed CROSSNOESIS. So, it’s not like we’ll be seeing the backs of Me and She for a while yet, rather, we’ll be saying goodbye to the HAMIDASYSTEM name, and their producer, who will be retiring after this final show.

Still, so much drama in just one day. I need a lie down.

I just realised I made an almost identical title pun when Me-formerly-Popopo’s other group set itself on fire too. Girl just brings the “amirites” right out of me, doesn’t she?

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The More HAMIDASYSTEM Changes, the More Totally I Love Them

/ Homicidol Maniac

I was almost all the way out the door yesterday when Team began to rapidly hoot and holler their enthusiasm for a new thing from HAMIDASYSTEM, who it will not surprise you to learn will be appearing in the Homicidols Best of 2019 voting. Seeing as how I was on my way out the door, no man, no matter how much I love this impossible little art project, I wasn’t going to stop. There was pie at stake! And sweet potatoes and the like!

But now that it’s just me and the aftermath of my gluttony to deal with, I can take the time to appreciate what it was that folks were so smitten by, and–

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HAMIDASYSTEM Has a New Treat for Us

/ Homicidol Maniac

Dang, a hell of a lot dropped in idol over the last 24 hours. We’ll have to skip or demote a good bit of it to truly focus on the good stuff, like the latest from the resurrected form of HAMIDASYSTEM, who continue to edge along without any big releases on the calendar, just this monthly series of one-offs. Given the source, this is completely okay: This whole family is at its best when it’s doing things completely on their own terms, so please do, say I.

Anyway, the new song:

I forgive it not quite clicking with me at first for the sake of that back half. Very nice stuff. I could hear Yanamyu doing something similar, only minus a lot of the atmospherics. And it’s significantly more interesting than most of what Spotify tries to feed me anymore, so there’s that!

You caan pick up from any of these sources:

Please don’t ever stop doing what you do, HAMIDASYSTEM.

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This Is a Sound of Hope

/ Homicidol Maniac

So Minna no Kodomo-chan are tottering into an uncertain future. This has been a savage year for graduations and disbandments, so it follows that we could toss a few more heartbreaks onto the proverbial woodchipper of our emotions and further dilute a scene that, in what feels like the blink of an eye, went from astonishingly diverse to increasingly monochromatic. Sucks.

But yes, we did lose HAMIDASYSTEM, only to gain a new HAMIDASYSTEM, and I’m going to put it out there that “Kizu no Oto” here is probably exactly the track that I needed to hear this morning:

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Surviving Monday with CROSSNOESIS

/ Homicidol Maniac

Just like with their new sisters in HAMIDASYSTEM the other day, HAMIDASYSTEM refugees CROSSNOESIS put out some fresh material last week, and I may be a jerk for kind of letting it molder at the back of the queue for several days, but I had my reasons*. And now I have every reason to finally post the thing and at the very least make a permanent record of it. And maybe give your Monday morning a little bit of a pick-me-up!

This playlist that they added on Soundcloud may just be all demo versions, but it’ll sound both familiar and innovative on top of that at the same time, and that’s cool:

I may not totally get the move to pull HAMIDASYSTEM into a new thing and have the old members do a new thing with a sound somewhere between old and new, but as long as the end product has me nodding with benign pleasure (like this), I’m going to be okay. Both projects feel like winners. And if they want to get back into the media-spanning cross-functional projects that made last year such a cool follow, I’m here for it.

*They are bad reasons

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Get a Listen to the New HAMIDASYSTEM

/ Homicidol Maniac

Well, I keep having to make choices between which things related to HAMIDASYSTEM I get a few minutes to hastily blog a post about, so let’s go with the most recent option this time! Hey, remember how HAMIDASYSTEM broke up and then rebooted and then also this happened and it’s all kind of weird in hindsight but, boom, bonus HAMIDASYSTEM? We haven’t actually heard anything official since the debut, but, as of yesterday, we have sound:

That … that sounds a lot like HAMIDASYSTEM! I mean, of course it does. I don’t know why I was expecting anything substantively different. And let me go ahead and say that’s it’s absolute great to have this back.

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CROSSNOESIS Could Possibly Save the World

/ Homicidol Maniac

So I don’t know where all of the good idol stuff went over the past several days*, you guys, but I’m kind of thankful for the moment’s peace. I told myself even yesterday that maybe I should just let the week ride itself out and only feel like I need to respond at all if something genuinely cool and big happens.**

Well, the best thing happened, and we finally got a look at the post-HAMIDASYSTEM project of the former members of HAMIDASYSTEM, who are not at all the new and current HAMIDASYSTEM, but are veterans of maybe the coolest, most creative, impossible-to-overrate multimedia art project to have ever struck idol. Specifically, we get music and some light visuals!

That was the fastest smashing of the Subscribe button in my over-enthusiastic history

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HAMIDASYSTEM, Rebooted

/ Homicidol Maniac / 1 Comment

Ah, friends, the day has arrived! With their official debut as part of Gyuno Fes (today!), my personal Idol of the Year for 2018 who like immediately afterwards announced a mass graduation and then a soft reboot with new members and I say soft because 3/4 of the old members just went on to a new project with the same management, so okay, HAMIDASYSTEM is back!

Go ahead and play the match-faces-with-names game!

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What’s Next, HAMIDASYSTEM?

/ Homicidol Maniac

So in the Great Idol Purge of 2019, one of the key casualties for lovers of the dreamy pop sound and highly ambitious multimedia art projects was HAMIDASYSTEM, my personal Idol of the Year for 2018 and a growing presence among the I-like-good-things set. The announcement was a really sad one — how could this just up and go away? we cried through gnashed teeth.

Well, as it turns out, we might need to re-tool those expectations just a little bit, because it seems like the result is more of a “oh okay, neat” than a “/throws self into traffic”.

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And HAMIDASYSTEM’s Dissolving Too

/ Homicidol Maniac / 2 Comments

And as if to add insult to injury (though in fact announced first in actual chronology), HAMIDASYSTEM, the people behind this, whose growth and development over the last year in particular has been nothing short of astonishing, will be disbanded in April, pending a complete reboot of the membership:

Nothing lasts forever, certainly not in idol, but I’ll be damned if I didn’t think that this was a group that had a good stretch left ahead of them. FFS, they were my personal Idol of the Year for 2018! After the huge artistic achievement that was putting together prose and song and video and live performance in a single cohesive story, it was easy to see that other, maybe even more ambitious, steps lay ahead. Continue reading →

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